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[Click this banner to go to my Sailing Navy list]" width="760" height="120" /></a></div></td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#BBD4D1"> <td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5"> <tr> <td>The Navy of Britain-Michael Lewis </td> <td> </td> <td><div align="right"> <input type="button" value="Back" onclick="history.go(-1);return true;" /> </div></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td><table width="100%" border="3" align="center" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3"> <tr> <td width="184"><a href="#large_images"><img src="../general_naval_images_new/the_navy_of_britain_min.jpg" title="Click this icon to see larger image" alt="Click here to see larger image" width="180" height="250" /></a></td> <td width="297"><p align="center" class="style2"><span class="style3"><span class="style9">THE NAVY OF BRITAIN</span><br /> <br /> </span>by</p> <p align="center" class="style2"><span class="style3">Michael Lewis</span></p> <p align="center" class="style2"><a href="professor_michael_lewis_books.html">More Professor Michael Lewis books</a></p> <p align="center" class="style2">FIRST, published 1948<br /> GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN Ltd., London</p> <p align="center" class="style2"> 659 pages - 1 kilo unwrapped<br /> </p></td> <td width="262"><div align="center"> <p>A blue cloth bound book with gilt lettering to spine and gilt crest to front board; page block very square, bright and tight; a handfull of fox spots to top and side edges and some some light browning to pages which are otherwise pristine - VERY GOOD condition.</p> <p>In an unclipped GOOD dust wrapper with some loss - in protective wrap.</p> </div> <div align="center"><span class="style2"><span class="style3"><strong>£</strong>3.5</span><span class="style3">0 + <a href="#postcharges" class="style5">P & P</a></span></span></div></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p class="style5">Blurb</p> <p>This book is a history, not of Britain's sea-power, but of that great institution which has implemented it—the Navy of Britain. Again, it is a history, not of the Royal Navy alone (though that holds an important place in it), but of something much wider and of even greater national importance. It shows how dangerous it is—and, historically, how wrong —to attempt to dissociate the Royal Navy from its " natural reserves," since from the very earliest days of our history all have been interwoven in one common pattern, all sprung from common parents, all fostering common traditions, all seeking common ends. So this book does not follow the plan that the thoughtless might expect, and deal first with the R.N., then with the R.N.R., then with the R.N.V.R., and so on. Such vertical cuts are meaningless in the eye of History. The divisions, rather are horizontal. " Origins," " Ships," " Officers," " Men," " Management," " In Action "—these are its big headings.</p> <p> It is written for those who might be expected from the nature of the case to be interested—the officers and men of the Royal Navy, and the officers and men of the Reserves who have known the sea life at first hand. But it is also meant--- perhaps most of all—for the ordinary citizens who have not. These are the men and women who through the centuries have benefited by the faithful services of their Navy—that cross-section of themselves, the whole Navy of Britain. Here is set out for them the story of this great national heritage which, more than any one other, has changed their little island into a World Empire, and saved it, without fail or fuss, from every tyrant who has threatened it from the days of Philip of Spain to those of Hitler.<br /> <br /> </p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a name="large_images" id="large_images"></a> <table width="661" align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <tr> <td width="144"><div align="center"><img src="../general_naval_images_new/the_navy_of_britain_dws.jpg" title="These images show the general appearence and the general condition of this book's dust wrapper front and spine as well as the book's spine. " alt="These images show the general appearence and the general condition of this book's dust wrapper front and spine as well as the book's spine. 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" width="135" height="500" /></td> </tr> </table> <p align="center"><a href="the_navy_of_britain_lewis_2nd_ed.html#large_images">Another copy: Second impression 1949</a></p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p><strong>My Postage and Returns Policies </strong></p> <p>If you wish to return a book please let me know as soon as possible but no later than <strong>three </strong> days after receipt. </p> <p>If you feel, and I agree after we have discussed it, that my description was misleading or inaccurate then, upon the receipt of the book in the condition you received it, I will then refund all your payment plus your return postage. </p> <p>If the book isn't what you really wanted and if we agree, then, upon my receipt of the book in the condition you received it, I will then refund your bid price. </p> <p>I have found, so far, that the majority of my buyers are genuine. </p> <p>For my part I try and describe the books as fairly as possible - I am not a professional - and do not like buyers to feel dissatisfied. </p> <p>My Postage and Packing charges are calculated before wrapping as best I can with a very nominal amount added for packaging costs. </p> <p>I am happy to pack together multiple buys made <strong>within a seven day period </strong>and post at cost as long as total value of purchases in the packet does not exceed the Royal Mail's maximum (Subject to more conditions than you can make sense of) built in compensation, which at the moment is £39.00.</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><div align="center"> <p><u><a name="postcharges" id="postcharges"></a><span class="style3">Royal Mail postal charges<br /> </span></u><span class="style14">Correct from April 2009</span></p> </div> <table width="500" cellpadding="0" border="2"align="center"> <tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <td><div align="center" class="style37 style6">UK First class</div></td> <td class="style3"><div align="center" class="style37 style6">Airmail USA etc.</div></td> <td><div align="center" class="style37 style6">Airmail Europe etc</div></td> </tr> <tr class="titlebkgr"> <td><div align="center"><strong>£4.45</strong></div></td> <td><div align="center"><strong>£14.90</strong></div></td> <td><div align="center"><strong>£7.49</strong></div></td> </tr> </table> <hr width="650" size="5" /> <p align="center"><a href="file:///H|/payment_types.html">If you would like more information or wish to purchase this book CLICK HERE !</a></p> <blockquote> <p align="center"><a href="#top">To Top</a></p> </blockquote> <p align="center"><a href="http://camberpete.co.uk" target="_parent">Camberpete's web site</a></p> <p align="center"> <input type="button" value="Back" onclick="history.go(-1);return true;" /> </p></td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>